MOTHERS’ CHRISTIAN (R)EVOLUTION
DATE : November 30, 2007
TO : All mothers and women
FROM : Mrs. Vida Cuarteros, Proprietor, Cuarteros Bread and Cakes
RE : WOMEN’S LOVE EVOLUTION THROUGH THE GIFT OF EDUCATION
Dear my sisters in Christ, fellow mothers and fellow women:
400 hundreds and 82 years have passed since Spain subjected us to Catholic Christianity but we have not yet progressed in the area of Christian love: We are still stuck up in the lap of SELF-LOVE! We are yet to mature to love God our Father above all, and our neighbor as ourselves.
Christ’s standard and definition of true Christianity is to go beyond self to love God above all and our neighbor like ourselves (Matthew 22). True Christianity is going beyond one’s own self, home and family. It is helping the poor in need, even though not our flesh-and-blood relatives. Read Matthew 25:31-46, James 1:27 and I John 5:1: WE CAN LOVE GOD ABOVE ALL THROUGH LOVING HIS POOR CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE NO MORE HUSBANDS (WIDOWS) OR DO NOT HAVE FATHERS (ORPHANS) TO EARN FOR THEIR NEEDS. The family who has lost a husband or father, for whatever reason, is the one most in need. We have to aid it sail through and survive in the ocean of life.
This nation is cursed because we have not graduated from mere lip-service, nominal Christianity. We call ourselves Christians but never have come out of our selfish shell of paganism. Paganism is loving the self alone or more than God and the neighbor. We are only up to caring for our own selves and families. But Jesus said True Christianity is going beyond loving self and succeeding in loving God above all and our neighbor.
Especially Filipino women, we have not come out of our own small shell like turtles and reached out to help the children of our poor sisters or fellow mothers. We have not reached out to help the children of the poor, especially the fatherless children who in God’s eyes are our nieces and nephews.
Many have insisted that when people are poor , to love God via the poor and to love our neighbor as ourselves is a very difficult thing to do, if not an impossibility. That can be true if CASH is the only resource or means. But we have many means and plenty of different resources. One of them is idea.
I have an idea.
If our men have had their own revolutions, I would like to propose our own women’s Christian evolution. What is that? LET US EVOLVE FROM SELF-LOVE TO GODLY AND NEIGHBORLY LOVE. Let us start in education. Education is a gift we can give to last forever or quite useful for a long time. FIND an indigent child in your barangay or community who wants to study highschool or college but couldn’t due to poverty. Choose the one most interested.
Then as mothers, join hands to act collectively as the Christian aunts of this poor child.
Here we can come in to help you. Here’s how: COLLECT ALL PURCHASE COUPONS YOU RECEIVE FROM US. Take note of this: We will only give COUPONS to those who ask. This will indicate to us that those who ask are those who have decided or agreed to get involved into this unique program of divine love.
One coupon will be given for every purchase of products worth P10.00 from Cuarteros Bread and Cakes. Staple these coupons by 10’s and when the number of coupons reaches 200, give them to the mother of the child you are supporting. It will be the mother who will facilitate the encashment of the coupons. She will receive in cash some ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the coupons.
For the moment, we do not expect we can give full scholarship to our indigent recipients. But at least, we can aid the poor family, lighten its burden and enable it to send its son or daughter to high school or college.
We will only stop our aid if, despite our aid, the mother fails to send her son or daughter to school. Our aid is intended for the education of that child.
This bayanihan of our Mga Nanay Para sa Edukasyon sa Kabus nga Pamilya Program (NEKPP) is a small step for Christian women to aid their fellowomen who are more hard up than they are. It is making it possible for poor women, without cost from themselves except the diligence to collect the coupons, to help their fellow poor mothers send their children to school! See, loving others while we are poor is possible after all! In this NEKPP, poor mothers are able to fulfill Christ’s will in Matthew 25:30-46 which is to help the poor who are hungry, thirsty, naked, homeless, sick and enslaved, in behalf and for the sake of God-Christ.
We can join in Christ’s Revolution, namely: The evolution from self-love to Godly love and neighborly love. To go beyond self-love to love God above all through the poor and our neighbor as ourselves.
For He said, Whatever good or bad that you will have done to the least (poorest) of these My brethren who are hungry, thirsty, naked, homeless, sick and enslaved, you have done that to Me! (Matthew 25:40). The Apostle John confirms: He who loves the Father will also love His children (1 John 5:1).
With this NEKPP idea, and using only a small part of our financial resources (read: just using our money to buy bread!), I am giving you the opportunity to fulfill Christ’s will.
This is one of the first times that Filipino women will have come out of self-love to reach out to love God above all through His poor people. And I am sure that, that if we will do this with sincerity and earnest love, then, God will also bless us.
As your sister in Christ, wanting to live according to His will, I am here offering you a way which if you will accept and decide to cooperate, will help us, Filipino women, join the Christian revolution, namely: the evolution from selfish self-love to Godly love and neighborly love.
Then God will bless our families and our nation.
Very truly yours,
Vida
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